Mattarella to the toga: no power is immune from scrutiny. Be irreproachable even on social use

The exercise of justice is 'entrusted by the constitution to the judiciary. Our Constitution, far-sightedly, pursues the objective of maintaining the balance between the various organs of the state: no power is immune from constraints and controls'. This was said by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, speaking to ordinary magistrates in training.

A 'rigorous exercise and sense of responsibility are a necessary implication' as is 'irreproachable individual conduct': 'judges have a duty to appear and be irreproachable and impartial. Moral rigour and high professionalism are the most effective response to instrumental attacks,' the President of the Republic went on to say.

"Judges and prosecutors have a duty to be and to appear irreproachable and impartial in every context, including in the use of social media, with the awareness that, in cases where a magistrate's behaviour is justifiably called into question, the credibility of the judiciary may be compromised," Mattarella further said. "Belonging to the judicial order imposes a high sense of responsibility, on the observance of which the credibility of the judicial function itself depends to a large extent. The rigorous exercise of a sense of responsibility is therefore a necessary implication of independence and autonomy, which demands professional qualification, punctual respect for deontology, irreproachable individual conduct".

Justice, 'assigned to the judicial order, constitutes an expression of knowledge that is not exhausted in the technical-legal datum and, consequently, could never be entrusted to artificial intelligence systems,' added the President of the Republic.